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Re: [DRAFT 1] [debathena-announce] End of life announcement for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Apr 7 20:50:46 2009
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:50:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: Debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
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Seems reasonable to me.
-Tim Abbott
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> I'd like comments on this soon - the e-mail should go out by Friday.
>
> - Evan
>
> Evan Broder wrote:
> > Reply-To: debathena@mit.edu
> > To: debathena-announce@mit.edu
> >
> > Hi everyone -
> > On April 18, 2009, Ubuntu will stop supporting Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
> > Gibbon. As we have with previous Ubuntu releases, we will be
> > desupporting Debathena on Gutsy at the same time. Any remaining users of
> > Gutsy are encouraged to upgrade by that date, as Ubuntu typically
> > removes releases from their apt repositories when a release reaches its
> > end of life, making it difficult to upgrade to a newer release.
> >
> > Ubuntu only supports direct upgrades from Gutsy to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
> > Hardy. Instructions for that process are available at
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades>. If you would like to
> > upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, you should first upgrade to Hardy and
> > then upgrade to Intrepid.
> >
> > We are also taking this opportunity to end Debathena support for Ubuntu
> > 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake. Dapper is the oldest release that we currently
> > support by almost a year, and it is showing its age. It lacks many
> > features which have made Debathena functionality easy to develop, or in
> > some cases, possible to develop. Furthermore, to the best of our
> > knowledge, nobody has run Debathena on Dapper since September.
> > Therefore, we will be ending support for Debathena Dapper on April 18th,
> > at the same time as Gutsy.
> >
> > At this point, Ubuntu only currently supports upgrading from Dapper to
> > Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy. Instructions for upgrading Dapper can also be
> > found at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades>.
> >
> > As always feel free to contact the Debathena team at debathena@mit.edu
> > if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Evan
> > for the SIPB Debathena Team
> >
> >
> >
>
